[WSIS CS-Plenary] briefing on WSIS tomorrow (thursday) at UN

[Rik Panganiban]

Sorry folks, I only saw this just now.  Which funny because I'm  
speaking on the panel!  Hopefully some other active WSIS people can  
be there.

Rik Panganiban
CONGO

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DPI/NGO Briefing

The World Summit on Information Society
Second Phase, Tunis, Tunisia 16 – 18 November 2005

2 February 2006
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 p.m.
at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium



Background Information:

The second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society  
(WSIS) evaluated the progress made since the Geneva phase in December  
2003 and produced two outcome documents – The Tunis Commitment and  
The Tunis Agenda for the Information Society. The breakthrough  
agreement on Internet governance acknowledged the need for enhanced  
cooperation to enable governments and created the Internet Governance  
Forum to foster and enable multi-stakeholder dialogue on public  
policy and development issues. The outcome documents also reaffirmed  
that financing of ICT deployment was vital to meeting the MDGs and  
welcomed the creation of the Digital Solidarity Fund. The Tunis  
Agenda established a list of moderators/facilitators for each of the  
eleven Action Lines in the original Geneva Action Plan. Their first  
meeting to coordinate the implementation of the Geneva and Tunis  
agreements will take place on 24 February in Geneva.

Speakers:

During the panel discussion from 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., Mohamed  
Samir Koubaa, Deputy Permanent Representative of Tunisia to the  
United Nations; Henk-Jan Brinkman, Senior Economic Affairs Officer,  
Executive Office of the Secretary General; Sergei Kambalov, Chief,  
ECOSOC and Interorganizational Cooperation Branch, Office of ECOSOC  
Support and Coordination, DESA; Deputy Executive Coordinator of the  
Secretariat of the United Nations Information and Communication  
Technologies Task Force; and Rik Panganiban, Communications  
Coordinator, Conference on NGOs, will talk about the follow-up to  
WSIS, the proposed Global Alliance as a follow up to the ICT Task  
Force and the $100 laptop initiative.

For more information on WSIS, please visit http://www.itu.int/wsis/ 
basic/faqs.asp

For more information on $100 laptop, please visit
http://www.undp.org/dpa/pressrelease/releases/2006/20060128- 
laptop.shtml and/or
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

A video on the importance of bridging the digital divide will be  
shown at 10:00 a.m.

The new DPI/NGO Section website will be presented from 11:30 a.m. –  
12:00 p.m.

A live webcast of the event may be available at www.un.org/dpi/ 
ngosection and/or www.un.org/webcast





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RIK PANGANIBAN       Communications Coordinator
Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United  
Nations (CONGO)
web: http://www.ngocongo.org
email: rik.panganiban at ngocongo.org
mobile: (+1) 917-710-5524

* Information on the WSIS at http://www.ngocongo.org/wsis
* Submit NGO Events to http://www.ngoevents.org


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